Quest, here's what normals have long suspected about DEI:
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LBJ had it figured out long ago....
Accurate Quote from Lyndon Johnson.. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Now spread that fear out to Homophobics and Misognyists and you begin to understand the mindset of those who object to DEI programs...
Here's another excerpt from the Snopes article...
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For two decades in Congress he was a reliable member of the Southern bloc, helping to stonewall civil rights legislation. As [biographer Robert] Caro recalls, Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the "hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves" in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn't afraid of snakes?) he'd drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.
Yet by the time Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, he was ready to plow all of his political capital to the passage of the civil rights legislation initiated by his predecessor. By most accounts, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 couldn't have become law when it did had not LBJ personally wheedled, cajoled, and shamed his former colleagues in the House and Senate into voting for it. One of the secrets of his success was the ability to speak the racially insensitive language of his fellow Southerners. He understood them. He understood their reluctance and in some cases downright refusal to tear down the walls of racial segregation. He knew racism from the inside, and he knew well the role the rich and powerful played in promulgating it
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It's all about Fear, Anger and Hatred...just look at the MAGA posts on this Forum...they all want someone to LOOK DOWN ON...it's that simple.
Link: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/
That actually DEI in reverse. The politics of resentment and divisiveness.
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The only Resentment and Divisiveness comes from those who are afraid to welcome the
contributions of those who don't look, speak or act like them...especially when they might be, or become, better than them.
That's complete bullshit.
DEI is a completely failed experiment that was born out of resentment and divisiveness.
Not at all...in fact DEI is alive and well at the University of Notre Dame...are you with us?
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Link: https://diversity.nd.edu
MLK dreamed his children would be judged by content of character. DEI judges by skin color.
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Correct, and Coleman Hughes has the solution to account for "privilege".
If you want to admit more underprivileged people into colleges, you should do it by class, not immutable characteristics like race and gender.
Having been through multiple corporate DEI training programs, here's what gets me the most: the idea that "people of color" are these fragile beings that are liable to get offended at common terms like the linked and that our language itself is problematic. This is so ridiculous to me because I know and work with "people of color" they aren't the fragile beings that white liberals (the actually fragile) project onto them.
It's a joke, it's a waste of time, it's a waste of money and as the study in my OP points out, it is counterproductive.
Link: https://www.it.northwestern.edu/about/it-projects/dei/glossary.html
"failed experiment" Perfect description of that bullshit, well done
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You come with a NY Post study?
Why won't people just admit it's the perception that people are giving jobs they are not qualified for is what brings down DEi or any type of equity program?
Not sure if you know this, but newspapers don't publish studies.
They publish stories about studies, or alternatively, decide not to publish stories about studies...for whatever reason.
As stated in the article, NYTimes made the editorial decision to not publish.
Here's the study:
Link: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Instructing-Animosity_11.13.24.pdf
I would say the New York Times has a fairly liberal identity. No wonder they wouldn't publish.
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